3 Concerning Naugrim, Ents and Eagles

[Findegil]

This does rather cast much of this chapter in doubt, instead of asking for an addition to it.
What are ‘the Eagles of the Lords of the West’ that Manwë and Yavanna create here together, if ‘the mighty speaking eagles’ of all these story are Maiar? It seems that Tolkien had come down full circle to the passage from LT: ‘Spirits in the shape of hawks and eagles flew ever to and from his halls; and their eyes could see to the depths of the sea and could pierce the hidden caverns under the world, and their wings could bear them through the three regions of the firmament beyond the lights of heaven to the edge of Darkness. Thus they brought word to him of well nigh all that passed in Aman: yet some things were hidden even from the eyes of Manwë and the servants of Manwë, for where Melkor sat in his dark thought impenetrable shadows lay.’
Since Manwë’s Ban is most probably later than Anaxartaron Onyalie / Of the Ents and the Eagles, I think we have to follow this and eliminate the creation of ‘the Eagles of the Lords of the West’ from this chapter. The Note from NoME should than be included in the Of the Maiar sub-chapter of the Valquenta.

Respectfully
Findegil